For the record, that was ME “burying the lead.” The interesting part wasn’t Trump polling about where he’s polled for months. The interesting part was the rest.
Others will drop out, soon enough. The Jindals, Patackis, Hucksters...even the Christies and Pauls. So the question is where will their support go when everything consolidates?
Clearly it won’t go to Trump. Anyone inclined to support Trump is already doing so. As candidates drops out, their supporters will migrate to one of the serious candidates - which at this point appear to be pretty much just Cruz and Rubio. So the interesting thing to watch will be where those supporters go.
Trump is NOT going to be the nominee. Not going to happen. He’ll stay at his 30 percent until that become apparent to all. So where will the other 70 percent go? Who knows? But it’ll be interesting to watch.
Hank
Sorry, but you're going to have to face reality. Cruz is where he has always been 8-10 and Trump can lock up the nomination by Super Tues.
“So the question is where will their support go when everything consolidates?
Clearly it won’t go to Trump. Anyone inclined to support Trump is already doing so.”
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It’s hard to imagine thinking that is more emotional, illogical, and irrational. Obviously, you hate Trump, and since your thinking is so flawed, your hatred of Trump is certainly flawed as well.
In your wacky mind, you’ve already limited him to 30%. Problem is, he’s already at 42%, and likely to go higher as a result of Friday.
Please go to DU where you will find similar thinkers.
“Clearly it won’t go to Trump. Anyone inclined to support Trump is already doing so. As candidates drops out, their supporters will migrate to one of the serious candidates - which at this point appear to be pretty much just Cruz and Rubio. So the interesting thing to watch will be where those supporters go.
Trump is NOT going to be the nominee. Not going to happen. He’ll stay at his 30 percent until that become apparent to all. So where will the other 70 percent go? Who knows? But it’ll be interesting to watch.”
With all due respect. That could have been summed up as “I dont like Trump, and everyone that supports anyone else will give their support to someone I like better....because reasons”.
At some point people need to knock off the “he isn’t a real candidate” nonsense. People supporting other candidates are not some monolith block that will heap over to candidate X en mass . Some will go to X, some Y others will do what I call “falling to the front”, where they see who is in the lead and has momentum, and go with that person to be part of the “winning team”. This is what happens in every election.